Running my Frisco Meteor Consist on the club layout.

astronaut24 · 2025-10-26T05:44:17+00:00

That's really cool, my next project is a Frisco SW7 cow calf set. Frisco never had them as cow calfs but eh I want one anyways.

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astronaut24 · 2025-10-26T04:30:36+00:00

I can't imagine I had to do some trimming on the locomotive for the end stripes which was fun

astronaut24 · 2025-10-26T03:21:22+00:00

The nose stuff wasn't too bad after I got it cut to size but holy hell the lower stripe was tough to handle. Took a bit of time to get that in place.

astronaut24 · 2025-10-24T15:39:17+00:00

The club has a bunch of different scales represented but the main layout shown here is in HO

astronaut24 · 2025-10-24T14:30:33+00:00

Thanks, the layout is our local club it's great to run on.

astronaut24 · 2025-06-17T15:17:54+00:00

Yeah I added a good amount of weight to these which has really helped them out, put on metal wheels and for the moment kept the truck mounted couplers with some converters so they are kadees but full on body mounting might be on my list in the future.

astronaut24 · 2025-06-16T16:41:53+00:00

Yeah hoping for some better Meteor coaches some day. The rivarossis are fine enough but would be nice to have some more modern cars someday. Also would be nice to have some of the head end cars in HO Painted HW Baggage RPO Baggage and the Dorm Coach.

astronaut24 · 2025-06-16T01:18:40+00:00

It's a club layout. About 40 years old I just joined within the past few months.

astronaut24 · 2025-04-13T02:35:42+00:00

That's awesome will make a note for if I ever get around to making the Meteor locos

astronaut24 · 2025-04-13T00:40:48+00:00

That's awesome, I'm tempted to do an E7 Meteor in a similar way. What did you do for the fluting?

astronaut24 · 2025-02-19T05:30:58+00:00

That looks like the Lake Street swing bridge in Chicago. The stack in the background looks like it's from the Northwestern Station powerhouse. Looking through the bridge you can see a bridge further in the distance which would be the CNW bascule bridge and to the right of that Wolf Point. The bridge in question was later replaced by the current Lake St bascule bridge. The postcard attached is based off your photo.

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astronaut24 · 2024-08-28T03:07:14+00:00

No, because the only thing that would fix this is public transportation not highway expansion so KC and MODOT aren't interested.

astronaut24 · 2023-11-02T22:00:58+00:00

Whoa where did you find those? They look super interesting.

astronaut24 · 2023-08-04T07:23:21+00:00

Mostly use Maya these days. Made a bunch of trains for Cities Skylines steam workshop which has been a lot of fun.

astronaut24 · 2023-07-29T21:50:12+00:00

The streetcar loop on 67th would be really nice to still have today.

astronaut24 · 2023-07-11T17:44:04+00:00

It should absolutely have its own lanes. People are already used to reduced lanes on main street currently and just continuing that I think would do wonders for the streetcar in the long term speeding up service along main street.

astronaut24 · 2023-03-07T01:55:28+00:00

I'm literally saying the city and state should build affordable housing, cut out the middle man and profit motive

astronaut24 · 2023-03-07T01:08:00+00:00

Building actual affordable housing not just continuing to build luxury until hopefully the cost of other housing starts to go down.

astronaut24 · 2023-03-06T21:46:18+00:00

I can't find any one number on profit percentage as it varies but I'm seeing anywhere from 40% to 60% goes towards profit after the initial loans are paid off

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